Engendering Business - Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930

Informationen zum Autor Angel Kwolek-Folland is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas. Klappentext "Drawing on a range of primary sources including the archives of major companies, personal papers, trade magazines, photographs, and recorded anecdotes of turn-of-century life and using the extensive secondary literature on women, sex roles, women's work, manhood, business history and material culture, Angel Kwolek-Folland has built up an intricate picture of office life ... (that) is both challenging and innovative" -- Business HistoryIn Engendering Business, Angel Kwolek-Folland challenges the notion that neutral market forces shaped American business, arguing instead for the central importance of gender in the rise of the modern corporation. She presents a detailed view of the gendered development of management and male-female job segmentation, while also examining the role of gender in such areas as architectural space, office clothing, and office workers' leisure activities.

Product details

• Authors: Kwolek-folland, Angel Kwolek-Folland, Angel (Associate Provost for Acade Kwolek-Folland
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.1998
• EAN: 9780801859489
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-5948-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gender Relations in the Americ; Gender Relations in the Americ
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries